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Marissa Paternoster's Screaming Females Trouble

How mysterious, chronic pain changed the writing process for the singer/guitarist and her band

Ten Big Deal Albums We're Hella Excited For

Hey: Albums! In case people still care about these things, here's a batch of potentially interesting releases arriving in the coming weeks and months:

GREEN MIND

Dinosaur Jr. takes 
Terminal 5 back in time

The Least Likely Music Headlines of 2013

For the last six months, the Sound of the City Supercomputer (a 1998 Compaq Presario) has been analyzing the structure and content of every pop news headline in the world in order to create a highly detailed predictive model of the music industry. While this project has important practical uses, suc ... More >>

Waste of Paint: King Tuff Goes Retro, Pissed Jeans Get Pissed Off, Slug Guts Spook, and Sky Ferreira Charms

Illustrations by Debbie Allen CMJ is great. It's got all the stressful clusterfuckery of SXSW, but with none of the late night hot tub parties or surprise Kanye West performances! It brings a ton of acts to town all at once, and you can't really get mad at that. In honor of this grand industry tra ... More >>

Q&A: Mike Watt On Snapping Pics In San Pedro For on and off bass, The fIREHOSE Reunion, And Playing Stooges Covers

For the past three decades, the flannel-flyin' and econo-jamming godhead Mike Watt has staunchly adhered to his and late, great best friend and fellow Minuteman D Boon's credo "punk is whatever we made it to be while projecting an air of sincerity that is just plain righteous. And in all of Watt's p ... More >>

Mike Watt and Friends

BLACK MAGIC

Witch cast their evil spell on Santos'

Q&A: Sebadoh & Dinosaur Jr.'s Lou Barlow On '80s Hardcore, Signing With SST Records And How Evil J Mascis Used To Be

via Sub Pop RecordsSebadoh.​The staggering gamut of cred Lou Barlow boasts in the hardcore, post-punk, lo-fi and indie rock realms toes past the line of the ridiculous and the legendary. In the early '80s, Barlow obliterated his guitar in the cataclysmic Massachusetts hardcore band Deep Wound ... More >>

CMJ Day One: Titus Andronicus Outlast The Buzz Cycle At Glasslands

Ben Lozovsky​Titus Andronicus Glasslands Gallery Wednesday, October 18 Better than: Reading a good book and being in bed by 10. As you're surely by now aware, this year's CMJ Music Marathon has some thousand-plus bands, not from all over the country but all over the world—everyone from ... More >>

NO SLEEP ’TIL BROOKLYN

CMJ’s Music Marathon kicks into gear

'Sub Pop/Hardly Art CMJ Showcase'

CMJ Announces Second Round Of Performers: J Mascis, Zomby, Kendrick Lamar, And More

Surfer Blood, who once upon a time was "just some band." ​ Last month the CMJ Music Marathon—coming to the city's music venues from October 18 through 22—announced the first batch of artists that would be playing next month's industry confab; that list included (among others) Neon ... More >>

Live: Sonic Youth Get Caught Between Bad Moon Rising and New York City

Sonic Youth w/Wild Flag, Kurt Vile Williamsburg Waterfront Friday, August 12 Better than: Listening to a playlist of the set on Spotify. Just before Sonic Youth played "Starfield Road," from 1994's Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, at Friday night's Williamsburg Waterfront gig, singer-guit ... More >>

J Mascis Is Opening For Band Of Horses At The Hammerstein Tomorrow Night

​There's something so exciting about last-minute announcements, right? Or maybe I just live on the deadline edge a little too much. Anyway, this just in: Tomorrow night's Band Of Horses show at the Hammerstein Ballroom—occasioned by the implosion of the Kings of Leon tour last week— ... More >>

Live: Getting The Warm And Fuzzies With Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr., Fucked Up, Off Terminal 5 Thursday, June 23 Better than: You and your friends sitting around, telling each other how much you appreciate each other. Keith Morris is a founding member of both Black Flag and The Circle Jerks, the co-author of a song called "World Up My Ass," and a pi ... More >>

Five More Awesomely Awkward J Mascis Interviews

If you're lucky, he'll shout out his wad. J Mascis's career has been fairly consistent. Even during the time Dinosaur Jr. had disbanded, he kept busy with his solo project, making sure that every couple of years we got a fresh dose of yearning-to-connect vocals and brontosaurus-sized fuzz-guitar. H ... More >>

Five Awesomely Awkward J Mascis Interviews

What do you think about when you're doing your guitar solos? "Oh, you know, what's for dinner and...very weird thoughts." Let us not ask too much of J Mascis. The Dinosaur Jr. frontman has given us much already: classic albums, amazing videos, monster solos befitting the name Dinosaur Jr, scientifi ... More >>

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CMJ Day Three: The Blow and the Screaming Females Conquer All

Teen Daze really looks like this.​Teen Daze Pianos Thursday, October 21 The Blow and the Screaming Females Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, October 21 Better than: Trying to find the next big thing. "Sometimes I feel like when I do the moves," the Blow's Khaela Maricich says toward the ... More >>

Download: Screaming Females' "I Don't Mind It," Coming Soon To A Siren Festival Near You

​BV's got the first available track from Castle Talk, the latest from agreeably scuzzy New Brunswick scuzz-rockers Screaming Females, one of the finest acts to grace the stage at this weekend's Siren Festival. Record's due in September, though iron-lunged singer/guitar-thrasher Marissa Paterno ... More >>

Live: NYC Popfest Unofficial Afterparty at Glasslands, Featuring Dom, Happy Birthday, and a Topless Lady

Glasslands on Saturday night. All photos by Georgia Kral.​Glasslands is always a sweaty mess. Winter, spring, fall, you name it- the two-tiered warehouse across the street from the old Domino Sugar refinery in Williamsburg is on fire all the time. Saturday night was no different. It was an uno ... More >>

Please Enjoy These Portraits of Recognizable People Our Photog Ran Into at SXSW

Recognizable, not notable: Shwayze, Perez Hilton, Cisco Adler Nate "Igor" Smith took photos of semi-famous people at South By Southwest. No naked people, but Mary Louise Parker! Full gallery over here.

Yes, I 'Actually' Like It

More music to love, loathe, fear, and tragically fail to avoid

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Live: Dinosaur Jr. Leave "Billie Jean" Alone at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

via dennischang's photostream Dinosaur Jr. Music Hall of Williamsburg Thursday, June 25 Dinosaur Jr. did bring up Michael Jackson from the stage last night, frontman/guitar wizard J. Mascis muttering something about Farah Fawcett and MJ and, later, when Lou Barlow took requests: "What are we gonna ... More >>

Tonight! Who's the Better Scion? Ziggy Marley or Dinosaur Jr.?

Adult Swim's team of terrorists and aliens have organized a summer-long series of free shows at Santos' Party House. Tonight, New Pornographers frontman A.C. Newman joins Cheeseburger, the Woggles, and, apparently, "a hockey-mask-wearing burlesque review." [ED: Shouldn't that be "revue"? Or will s ... More >>

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Wow, That Ridiculous J. Mascis Skateboarding Trick Was Actually Performed by J. Mascis

SOTC buddy Ryan Dombal gets to the bottom of Dinosaur Jr.'s video for "I'm Over It," in which the band's three aging members do obviously stunt-doubled tricks on one skateboard and two BMX bikes. Except some of it--and not just the part where J. Mascis awkwardly cruises into the frame, and then si ... More >>

Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

On Dinosaur Jr.'s "I Want You to Know"

The post-reunion Dinosaur Jr. has been so consistent at such a high level that, mostly, what separates one song from another is nothing more complicated than an extra solo or backing vocal. J. Mascis has an incredible feel for the tiny detail that elevates any one of his songs from good to great. He ... More >>

Ron Asheton, 1948-2009

Original Stooge Ron Asheton has been found dead in his apartment. Along with his work with the Stooges, Asheton played with various late-20th Century superstars including Mark Arm and Thurston Moore and (in memorable dates at Wetlands some years back) J. Mascis and Mike Watt. He rocked exceptionally ... More >>

Reprising a Classic Built to Spill Record, For Good and Ill

Perfect From Now On gets all spilt on some green

GUITAR HEROES

Big names in rock celebrate the beloved Jazzmaster

The Hold Steady Return With Another Fist-Pumping Ode to Triumphant Fatigue

I guess this is growing up. . .

DINOSAUR JR. JR.

J Mascis’s Witch crank it up

Live: I'm Not There Dylan Tribute at the Beacon Theater

No Context: An Interview with the Magik Markers

When Free Radicals Become Free Agents

Thurston Moore goes folk, exploits Starbucks, and walks his dog, Merzbow

Live: Dinosaur Jr. at Irving Plaza, 06.07.07

The Sound of Summer

Emperor reigns. J Mascis rocks. And Panda Bear goes all California.

The Shins Ruined Indie-Rock

Where You Been

Alt-rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. return to the freak scene as seniors

High Fidelity

From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

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